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  QUESTION: Is there a way to easily reduce an image's size?
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  I had to add a nonce to the sad homura post, since it won't save posts with 0 edits. Now it's a more modest width.
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  Feature request: Poll voting sets topic to tracked
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  @HardwareGeek said:causing your CPU to overheat and burst into flames, releasing toxic fumes Didn't we prove this here?
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  How can I undo my poll vote?
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  I imagine he'd have been happy to include those people.
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  I'm a happy cat
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  @Frank said:I guess the biggest thing for me is the mobile interface This is a game changer for me. I'm a lot more active now thanks to this. I don't tend to go on a PC at home and I'm too busy to use the forum when I'm at work. Being able to use the forum on a mobile is great. You could use CS on a mobile, but the experience was quite painful. I'm very happy that I don't have to hand craft HTML on a mobile device any more. There are some other handy features like how it resumes from your last reading position in a thread. Sure that doesn't work properly all the time, but it will improve. There are certainly some rough edges to Discourse, but it's already changed considerably in the short amount of time we've been using it. It's cool to see software evolve, and it's cool to be a part of the process.
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  Front-page Comments Idea
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  @dhromed said:Have I perchance hit regular-office coworker jackpot? That was originally posted nearly two years ago. Not a lot has changed....
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  Feature Request: Multiple selection of categories
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  @error said:Still, why do you think multiple selection of categories is a terrible idea? I don't, I just think it has plenty of chances it would clutter up the UI. The muting stuff pretty much solves the problem of "I just don't want to usually look at this stuff", once muted you can still interact with topics in the catgory, watch them and so on.
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  Poll: Remove bugs from front page
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  FYI I did a bunch of cleanup. see: Jun 18, 2014 Muted categories are too atomic I just fixed this, will deploy to in the next few days. New behavior (and bugfixes) Topics in muted categories will not be added to new or latest lists (was buggy as numbers would go up via message bus) Topics in muted sub-categories will not show up in category list Unread will work as normal,...
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  No indication of which post is being replied to
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  @error said:If ever a domain needed to be OneBox-able... I can never remember if I'm on bash or qdb.
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  Cicking on active top-level-navigation should refresh view
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  @Kuro said:just to be save Yes, that is what I meant, red button should trigger a refresh.
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  Layout breaks on higher zoomlevels / lower Window-width
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  Two levels of zoom work fine here with Chrome, but I've got a HighDPI screen and that helps a lot keep the L&F similar (since it's effectively zoomed a lot already).
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  Why can't I log in with my long name?
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  What part of "I alembic Discourse" do you not understand?
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  Viewing a user's posts from their profile, hides smileys/formatting
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  @Arantor said:See, this is where I've been so spoiled with my choice of forum software for years. It does bbcode by way of stepping through it and parsing it tag by tag. This has two side effects - performance sucks, but not as much as the alternative of DOS-by-regexp - and the fact that you know what tags you're currently in the middle of, and can safely and sanely exit those tags again. I wrote my BBCode parser in .NET, and it works similarly, with a stack. It's smart enough to interleave tags, so if you type: [b]Discourse [i]sucks [u]worse [/b]than [/i]Community [/u]Server, you get <strong>Discourse <em>sucks <u>worse </u></em></strong><em><u>than </u></em><u>Community </u>Server. It's also smart enough to close inline tags when it encounters a block-level tag (or eof), filter out redundant tags (links within links, for example) and prevent whitespace collapsing.
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  Re: Small edit impossible due to "body too similar"
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  Zooming in mobile browser
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  In the normal manner for zooming, and its little different to the screenshot in the OP.
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  Why can't I save my user preferences here?
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  I believe @neil added a related fix too as this affects all Single Sign On sites. This topic is now closed. New replies are no longer allowed.
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  Registration emails don't work
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  Is the server melting?
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  Links not taking users off to a new tab
  • Arantor  

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  Anyway, feature exists, so I think we are good here. This topic is now closed. New replies are no longer allowed.
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  Finding XSS is fun and all...
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  @Arantor said:I'd hate to actually do that. Why? You have code look after all that stuff for you, of course; nobody sits there and does it all by hand!
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  Some proposed Discourse improvements for TDWTF
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  If everyone else did it, I wouldn't be so annoyed by it but I don't know any software that does this on the web. I actually think I'd have been way more amenable to changing the web if you guys had done it one step at a time.
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  Completely empty pages on SeaMonkey
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  TDWTF needs a bigger hamster in the wheel
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  Cannot flag post with custom reason
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  More Proof that Discourse Sucks
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  This is one of the reasons I read The Register because they have a way of taking the proverbial out of it all. The Ministry of Justice here is frequently referred to as the Ministry of Fun, for example. Sidesteps doubleplus good thoughtcrime.
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  Replying to the first Post in a Topic doesn't do the same thing as replying to the second Post
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  Yeah, that would at least confuse me less than having too identical looking buttons do different things depending on context. Filed Under: yeah, there are situations where what I try to avoid here make sense, but I think in this case seperation would work better
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  Closed Poll: How do you feel about Discourse on TDWTF?
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  Then it's not GPL and not compatible with anything that IS GPL. GPL's nature isn't just about protecting freedom of software through guarantees, it's about trying to enforce everyone else stops being proprietary at the same time, one package at a time. Look in the GPL FAQs, they're very happy about a thing called readline that depended on a GPL library and how it's a great case study of 'GPL all the things'. GPL is great for enforcing certain things, and it's geared around a compiled application structure where extensibility is primarily handled at library level. Not so much for less rigorous environments where you're doing plugins at the source level rather than compiled/library level. Could such an exception be granted? Sure. Is it a big deal that it wouldn't be GPL compatible? Probably not. But the more complicated the licensing terms are, the more likely you're going to push people away. GPL is well understood. GPL with a few strange exclusions (that are not compatible in any way with GPL itself), that's basically dual licensing the software. And that's always good fun.
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  Feature request: "current status" like in WhatsApp, Facebook
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  @faoileag said:Now all we need is to see the name on mouse-over the avatar pic as well... I don't understand why we can't just put it to the right of the username. Or before the username. There's a whole line of whitespace just sitting there. Weird.
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  Feature Request: OneBoxing for Front Page Articles
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  OpenGraph Open Graph protocol The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. oEmbed oEmbed Either of those. Then add to the embed whitelist, do not forget that step.
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  "Article Discussion" prompts me to create a topic when I can't
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  @Kuro said:#IWantedToAddATagToThisButICantFindOutHowSoIMightAsWellUseTheStupidTwitterHashtagUsage!#CanSomebodySendMeAMessageOnHowToDoThis? --- Filed under: [leaving broken formatting for the record](#tag) Filed under: leaving broken formatting for the record
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  What definition of time is this forum using?
  • Arantor  

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  @Maciejasjmj said:most of the time there are less avatars than people who liked the post. It tries to be smart. And ends up being dumb. I think. I'm getting dumber every day so it's hard to tell.
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  Feature suggestions for Discourse
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  Don't forget: on smaller and dimmer items its a lot harder to make out the difference. You could convince me that the current icons are light blue. Or green. Heck if I click on the bookmark icon I only notice it because I see it change in front of me. And I wouldn't place a bed on the color of the damn progress thingy.
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  @Nagesh said:You can find each other on twitter @Blakeyrat said:Are there any development shops left that don't do agile? If that's his criterion for a job, the poor sod's gonna end up in Mom's basement.
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  FAQ requests.
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  I'll just leave this here. Also don't forget colour blindness issues where you need adequate contrast even if you do fail WAI Guideline 2.
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  Why does the URL change as I scroll through a topic?
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  Note, @sam created a plugin with a user pref for this. http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/stop-spamming-my-browser-history-setting/770
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  Order of post actions
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  I just posted this to help improve it: Jun 11, 2014 Abandon and Save draft buttons should appear when composing a new reply Steps: Start typing a reply to a topic Navigate to a new topic with the composer open Hit the reply button on and of the posts What happens: A dialog shows up asking if you want to abandon your post What should happen: A dialog should show up with 3 options: Cancel Abandon Draft Save...
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  Relative times are not a good idea
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  Thanks for reporting it, this is now fixed Jun 11, 2014 BUGFIX: enable the 'relative timestamp' share dialog on mobile view · discourse/discourse@5e461a2 A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. - BUGFIX: enable the 'relative timestamp' share dialog on mobile view · discourse/discourse@5e461a2
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  Τrу tο ѕеаrсh fοr thіѕ tοріс.
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  Being here at work, I only have access to lynx through Cygwin and my phone, and both display that way here. I would imagine that on my laptop, where the terminal emulator on linux is more sane, it works fine. But I thought the messed up version helped illustrate @ben_lubar's post - I didn't realize that every character was non ascii until I saw that.
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  Some Mods don't understand the difference between refactoring and branching.
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  This topic is now closed. New replies are no longer allowed. WONTFIX, BITCH
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  Feature request: "Tracking" indicator icon in topic lists
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  In topic lists, I'd much prefer having my per-topic tracking status be represented as an icon under div.topic-statuses, much like the padlock for locked status. Or alternatively, next to the "starred" toggle. The reason is two-fold: A color value/brightness of the topic title is a terrible representation. A subtle difference in contrast simply doesn't cut it; not just because everyone's screen and lighting conditions is different, but also because their eye sensitivity is different. So hitting the right balance between usefulness and subtlety is hard. (Main reason) Left aligned icons are much easier to quickly scan than having to zig-zag my eyes along the end of each title. Apropos reason #2, although I find the blue "new" badge usable, I'd much prefer if it was a stand-alone icon too. It wouldn't be hard to shoehorn "New" as a tracking status, in fact. Note that nothing stops you from still keeping the different title colors.
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  Highlighting Text
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  Need sub-categories of WTF
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  Do you mean recategorize your topic? Yes, anyone who has edit permissions on the first post can recategorize the topic.
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  Ops Bug: Why does the site keep disappearing?
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  @error said:http://cachecheck.opendns.com/ Maybe I should have also added a giant #*SHRUG* i dont care to my post i dunno
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  Someone just took a backup
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  Slower... and in English ?
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  Two forums or what?
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  Oracle has := for assignment and = for equality comparison. Everyone know that by now.
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  Should mod edits be highlighted more?
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  No need. I know how to do it, manually, but why should I? The software should do it for me which is, of course, what we're all saying. Thanks anyway!
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  Discourse/Main Site Test Plan
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  I like my version better.
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  Is using Discourse to track bugs a WTF?
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  @abarker said:In the system I use, we currently have 5 possible states for our bugs: Pending - equivalent to Open On Hold - generally used when there is some obstacle to actually implementing a fix. These get reviewed on a weekly basis to see if they can be put back in a tracking status. Cancelled - for some reason or another, the bug has become a non-issue. Either it could not be replicated, there were multiple tickets, etc. Completed - this indicates that the fix has been completed and verified. It just needs to be published. Released - the fix has been completed, verified, and published. At work, tasks only have "open" and "closed" states, and we use tags for things like this this (Cancelled = notabug or wontfix, Completed = fixready, Released = task closed). Tasks are associated with diffs in Phabricator and the state (whether they've been committed and whether they're in prod yet or not) is automatically pulled from Phabricator.
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  How can i access my drafts?
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  @codinghorror said:Drafts are discarded once your post succeeds. *Usually
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  I moved 21 posts to a new topic
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  @codinghorror said:How would any future users ever find that completely unrelated meta-conversation (and to be clear, by meta I mean "discussion about the discussion software itself"), buried in there? You know, "basic discovery of information on the Internet" generally involves hyperlinking. But i guess splitting topics works too, thought it's not basic anymore, it's "assisted discovery of information" Fwiw, keep in mind that out-of-threadtopic quoting won't help with discovery of such reply from the original post.
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  Feature Request: explicit non-ninja editing...
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  Well, html has <ins> and <del>